In the link below, Albany Rose, a post-abortive mother, says something that I find interesting.
She said pro-choicers seem to think that pro-lifers who stand and pray/advocate in front of abortion clinics make the women "choosing" to abort "feel bad." I find this interesting, because that accusation has been leveled at me--albeit in a polite manner.
I was asked to speak on the radio and invite the general populace to join a local pro-life advocacy group in a Lent-long, prayerful, silent protest in front of one of Guam's abortion clinics. I was asked to send out a news release to the different radio hosts to see who would have me on their show.
One of the radio hosts, who knew me personally, was disturbed by the goal of the news release and the topic I wished to address on the air. He was concerned that I would make people feel bad. "Please dont do this," he said.
It stumped me at first. Oh, yes, you're right. Dont want to make these poor pregnant mothers feel worse than they already do. Abortion is a "hard" choice to make. People are desperate...
But I had to snap out of it. Abortion isn't about "choice" or about whether someone's feelings might get hurt.
Abortion--legal abortion--is about legally having one's offspring killed. And that reality simply outweighs whether someone's feelings are hurt or not. It outweighs everything. If we wish to uphold the integrity of a mother, then the integrity of her child must be upheld as well. And I would hate for a woman to have to compromise her dignity by being involved, in any way, with an abortion. And if she has already suffered in that way, than I want to protect her--and another innocent child--from going through it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNWUaZQG7RI
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